Our 21st Birthday

Next year, the trust will be 21 years old. We're keen to commemorate the occasion and have some ideas, but would very much like to hear from members if they have some of their own. If you have any ideas you would like to throw into the mix, then please email them to chairman@wendoverartrust.co.uk

About the Wendover Arm Trust

The Wendover Arm Trust was formed in February I989 as a voluntary body, set up to promote the restoration of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal. It is a company limited by Guarantee and without share capital, and a registered charity.

At the time of formation, there was a danger of the canal suffering further deterioration due to neglect, and the severing of the Arm by what was then only a proposal to construct the Aston Clinton By-pass.

If we paraphrase the trust’s Articles of Association, the aims of the trust are:

• To promote and achieve restoration to navigable standard of the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal from Bulbourne to Wendover. This includes the waterway, all buildings, works, and structures.
  
  
• To maintain and improve the waterway for the use and benefit of all
  
  
• To promote the fullest use of the waterway by all forms of waterborne traffic and for all forms of local amenity, tourist and recreational, and water-related activities for the benefit of the public.
  
  
• To promote and educate the public in the history, use and associated wildlife of canals and inland waterways generally, and of the Arm in particular.
  
  
• To restore, reconstruct, preserve, and maintain canals and inland waterways and works and auxiliary works and buildings generally, provided that there is a net benefit to the public.